Multielectron ground state electroluminescence
Multielectron ground state electroluminescence
The ground state of a cavity-electron system in the ultrastrong coupling regime is characterized by the presence of virtual photons. If an electric current flows through this system, the modulation of the light-matter coupling induced by this nonequilibrium effect can induce an extracavity photon emission signal, even when electrons entering the cavity do not have enough energy to populate the excited states. We show that this ground state electroluminescence, previously identified in a single-qubit system [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113601 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.116.113601] can arise in a many-electron system. The collective enhancement of the light-matter coupling makes this effect, described beyond the rotating wave approximation, robust in the thermodynamic limit, allowing its observation in a broad range of physical systems, from a semiconductor heterostructure with flatband dispersion to various implementations of the Dicke model.
Cirio, Mauro
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Shammah, Nathan
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Lambert, Neill
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De Liberato, Simone
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Nori, Franco
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17 May 2019
Cirio, Mauro
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Shammah, Nathan
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Lambert, Neill
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De Liberato, Simone
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Nori, Franco
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Cirio, Mauro, Shammah, Nathan, Lambert, Neill, De Liberato, Simone and Nori, Franco
(2019)
Multielectron ground state electroluminescence.
Physical Review Letters, 122 (19), [190403].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.190403).
Abstract
The ground state of a cavity-electron system in the ultrastrong coupling regime is characterized by the presence of virtual photons. If an electric current flows through this system, the modulation of the light-matter coupling induced by this nonequilibrium effect can induce an extracavity photon emission signal, even when electrons entering the cavity do not have enough energy to populate the excited states. We show that this ground state electroluminescence, previously identified in a single-qubit system [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113601 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.116.113601] can arise in a many-electron system. The collective enhancement of the light-matter coupling makes this effect, described beyond the rotating wave approximation, robust in the thermodynamic limit, allowing its observation in a broad range of physical systems, from a semiconductor heterostructure with flatband dispersion to various implementations of the Dicke model.
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Multielectron Ground State Electroluminescence
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e-pub ahead of print date: 15 May 2019
Published date: 17 May 2019
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